Sukkot day 2 ~ Sukkah, Loving Kindness and Awareness

So that your children will know etc. ~ this means that the Sukkah is the aspect of awareness. This can be understood through comparing a person who eats and drinks, gets the taste and knows. And when s/he does not eat, one still has one's health that profits from the eating , and so too the sages of blessed memory said 'one cannot compare someone who has bread in his pack to one who has not', because his health still profits, and when one does not eat and does not drink and does not see he gets nothing. And so too there are things in the Torah that a person gets better with deeper awareness, and there are those s/he cannot get, s/he only reads the text in front of them and does not understand the reason of the thing (get the taste), but if s/he does not know and does not see, it is nothing to him/her, and a person needs to make awareness enter into herself/himself. There is a mitzvah of eating and drinking in the Sukkah, which is the idea of understanding deeply the issue of "and they saw God and ate and drank" (Shemot 24:11), that the revealed understanding is called "eating and drinking", what they really understand and get is as if they tasted an edible thing and understood it. And this is "so that your generations will know": that they will enter awareness inside themselves. And there is understanding above this, that cannot be made enter inside, to comprehend and to know, and this is the secret of understanding, a thing that stands in front of a person, as explained in the parable of one who does loving kindness to other people, and feeds them, and gives them to drink - this loving kindness enters into them, and because they need more loving kindness it is impossible to influence or convince them. For instance, clothing, which is outside of the body, is called "loving kindness that surrounds a person from the outside", and so too, what we make a person understand bout the secret of the Creator, how to understand him, it is called "loving kindness that surrounds a person." And therefore, regardin Avraham it is written "and he set an ESHEL in Be'er Sheva" (Gen. 21:33) - ESHEL stands for Eating, Drinking and Leaving, because through eating and drinking he brought people close to the Name , through the secret of "and they saw God and ate and drank" - that he bestowed loving kindness to them and through this he befriended them to the Name. And the secret of Leaving is also the expression of connection, and after that they understood with an extra comprehension the secret of the Name from whom all comes, and surrounds all. This comprehension surrounds them, with the exception of what entered in one's internalness, the comprehension of eating and drinking, as explained above, and behold Avraham seized the characteristic of loving kindness because the Holy One is the Master of Loving Kindness, as it is written about Him (Ps. 121:5) Ad-nai is your protective shadow, etc., meaning that the Holy One is a shadow and surrounds a person to protect her due to His loving kindness, and guards a person under His shadow, and Avraham seized the characteristic of loving kindness all the days of his life, doing loving kindness with all creatures, and what is found 'he kept God's charge' (Gen 26:5) this means that just as the Holy One of Blessing kept His lovingkindness, Avraham was doing it, and this is "that Avraham hearkened My voice and kept My charge" - that he kept what I needed to be kept in the characteristic of loving kindness, and so too in the midrash it is explained that all the days of Avraham the characteristic of loving kindness was cancelled on High, and [God] did not need to deal with it at all.